Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-DNt7RKuyI

Seems like such a weird band to have as a favorite ever band. I dated a girl in college who was way into them, but this was also right at their commerical peak and I don't think even then she would have said they were her favorite ever.

ardent 311 fans are disgusting savages

This is not in debate here.

I was on NI for a mini-festival and it had some interesting stuff to the side, but the main stage act at the end was DJ TIESTO

needless to say, we got off the island

They were his fave in 2001.

For the millionth time: My last ex-boyfriend's (the younger, non-redneck, party time one) favorite band ever was 311.

I am reading this as though you are exasperated by having to tell us again, like "For the millionth time, no running in the house!"

I had the 311 album with Down on it and I'm pretty sure I saw them live at least once in the 90s but I was on a lot of drugs back then.

I also owned the G Love and Special Sauce album and saw him live more than once.

To my credit, I have never owned anything by 311 or attended a concert, despite being in the exact demographic (in high school 1995-1999, in Iowa) that they probably count as their base.

Don't make me have to tell you again. Xp

There are strangely placed quotation marks in the suit I'm reading, such as

he would tell Plaintiff which employees “jerked” him off.

and

would call Plaintiff offensive names such as "punk" ass

yeah I would think it should be "jerked him off" and "punk ass"

Yeah - "'jerked' him off" makes it sound like "jerking" is the slang part of that term, which is clinically known as "whacking off."

I also owned the G Love and Special Sauce album and saw him live more than once.

oh dude, by choice?

The first time, yes, and it was not good. The second time he either opened for somebody or I went bc friends were going, but I was distinctly unenthusiastic about it.

In my defense: I listened to music I am proud of back then, too, but it's not as funny to confess an abiding love of like, PJ Harvey as it is to admit that I once wrote Eddie Vedder a gushing fan letter.

Also I hung out with people whose musical tastes went: Phish, Grateful Dead, JGB, Bob Dylan, the end so I was really branching out here.

Also your display name is horrible and fascinating.

I always thought G. Love & SS had the energy of street musicians, in a good way. Never seen them live.

I saw Phish once. It was OK. I took two rolls of E though, that might have accounted for it.

Bob Dylan is the best of any of the artists we're talking about here but may also be the worst in concert of any of these.

I always thought G. Love & SS had the energy of street musicians, in a good way. Never seen them live.

They were really, really boring! Like, shockingly boring. This was a long time ago so maybe they stepped up their game but lord. It is one of the five worst shows I've seen.

Damn. I'll just stick with the "Baby's Got Sauce" video and keep my good impression of them.

This made me think of Jeff, and Tom Skilling. And it made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoSHi4_kkUc

I love this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScvAJG51V4&feature=player_embedded

Ugh there were horrible fundie wackos having a loud, exceedingly hateful, anti-gay protest in front of my work today. I wish them all ill.

See Dan's post immediately above yours.

"They hold an anti-gay protest, you bend them over a bar stool and bugger them. That's the Chicago way."

Mmm no.

Well, neither of us are natives, so we're not bound to that.

Per the CPL, I can't be a true Chicagoan due to my lack of mustache anyway.

I got to the theater in Evanston way faster than I thought I would, so I killed some time in the Urban Outfitters on the corner. Serious question: am I not to be trusted anymore to wear out my own t-shirts? They have to be PRE-worn-out for me? This is getting ridiculous. As if there aren't enough areas of my life that I feel I'm being unnecessarily and willingly hand held through, not they're wearing out my t-shirts before I've even bought them.

*I bought a yellow t-shirt with the Rolling Stones logo on it, pre-worn-out. Maybe if they'd had more than one I would have skipped it, but it was the last one in the store. That can be powerfully compelling.

**The new Woody Allen movie is good. Not mind-blowing, but very funny. The Hemingway character (played by Corey Stoll) had me cackling. There's no joke, except that it's Hemingway, and he speaks in terse sentences, and always about courage and manhood and shooting large animals. (OK, I guess that does count as a joke.) Adrian Brody as Dali has one of the funniest scenes, and sadly there's only one of them. But thumbs up all around.

OH! My favorite gag was the Owen Wilson character pitching a movie idea to Luis Bunuel. "There are a bunch of characters in a room, and they can't leave." Bunuel doesn't understand. "Why not?" That, as they say, works on so many levels.

does anyone have a sleeping bag i can borrow for a few days? i won't stank it up.

Are you going camping?

I don't have a sleeping bag.

Sure, Kr has one. When do you need it?

I may be looking for a new apartment within the next couple of months, so if anyone hears anything (pref. cheap and further East than Humboldt Park) please let me know!

also pardon the craigslistyness of that post :|

How many bedrooms and what is your preferred price range? There are lots of apartments for rent up and down Diversey, including an apartment in the ridiculous beer pong party house two doors down. You'd fit right in there...

I just need one room for myself. I'd prefer staying in a two-bedroom but it doesn't matter much as long as the roommates are nice. I'd say $450 is probably the absolute maximum I'd be able to spend.

So more of a roommate wanted kind of thing than a whole apartment to which you will bring yourself and a roommate? Word word.

busy weekend!

posting about apartments is mundane, but i'm about to go one step beyond:
do any of you have amazing office chairs, and if so, where did you get them? do you have a recmmendation for where to get a fantastic office chair?

xp Yeah. This will probably happen maybe August or so. My roommate Jess is moving out, and if he's going there's not really any reason for me to stay here. The landlord is awful — things have needed to be fixed for more than a year now and they still aren't — and I'm tired of hearing screeching tires and gang whistles at night.

How do you feel about Rogers Park? Rent is really cheap up there and w/ Loyola, you will probably be able to find folks looking for a roommate. Plus it's an easy, if long, commute to the Loop.

I want a new office chair.

It's not that long of a commute! You should move to Rogers Park. There are more hip young people in my immediate neighborhood than there were 6 years ago for sure.

If Jeff doesn't know where to get the best office chairs, then I don't know if anyone else will :-/

Yeah Rogers Park/Edgewater is exactly where I'm thinking about.

I won't have to commute to the Loop for much longer since I'll be doing my sales job full time, which is right by the North/Clybourne red line stop.

if you come up here to scope things out, lemme know. classes are over and i like to walk around.

:)

I'd actually just like an aeron for home. I love mine at work. Too expensive though. There needs to be another dot com crash so they can be found on the cheap again.

Aeron chairs are not easy to fart quietly into.

^ Crucial for a shared office setting.